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SPRING 2012 the Bede Griffiths Sangha Newsletter the Bede Griffiths Sangha Is Committed to the Search for the Truth at the Heart of All Religions SPRING 2012 The Bede Griffiths Sangha Newsletter The Bede Griffiths Sangha is committed to the search for the truth at the heart of all religions SPRING 2012 VOLUME 13 ISSUE 1 I hope there isn’t too much ‘shop’ in this letter, but at least it may be said that CONTENTS you provoked it... - Father Bede Griffi ths , from a letter to a friend Hermits in Company 2012 A Song of Unity The Wider Sangha - Ireland Jane Lichnowski 2 Bill Whiland 8 Justin Carty 18 From Father Bede to a Friend Caldey Island Silent Retreat 2011 Book Recommendation Edited by Hazel Eyles 3Martin Neilan 9Cygnus Books 18 The Wider Sangha - Brazil 3 Marriage & Monastic Oblation Dancing Across the Abyss Stefan Reynolds 10-11 Elizabeth West 19 Giving Birth to Wisdom Brother Martin 4Sanskrit Corner Sadhu Videhi Ken Knight 12-13 Jill Hemmings 20-21 Quietening Daphne Radenhurst 5Book Review A Call for New Trustees Aileen Neilan 14 Adrian Rance 22 Advent Gathering at Ammerdown Valerie Cherry 6The Wider Sangha - Italy Inter Religious Dialogue 22 Daniela Pancioni 15 Hermits in Company 2011 Sangha News Judith Jones 6What is Truth? with Br. Martin 15 Retreats & Resources 23 Hermits in Company 2011 Meeting Fr Bede on the Road Regional & Overseas Geoff Bird 7Patrick Eastman 16-17 Sangha Contacts 24 bgs_newsletter_spring2012.indd 1 18/02/2012 11:09:42 2 THE BEDE GRIFFITHS SANGHA NEWSLETTER Welcome to the Silent Retreats 2012 Spring 2012 Newsletter This Newsletter is published ‘Hermits in Company’ three times a year to provide a ‘Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure’ forum for articles and comment Father Bede Griffi ths within the remit of the Sangha to search for the truth at We are pleased to let you know that there will be two ‘Hermits in Company’ the heart of all religions, to retreats in 2012. The phrase ‘Hermits in Company’ captures our intention for these record Sangha activities and retreats which is to organise a quiet time where we can gather, mostly in silence, give details of future events free to use the unstructured time and space as we wish. We come together for and resources available. times of meditation, chanting and reading of scripture from different traditions, Correspondence and following the rhythm of the day at Shantivanam. They are ‘DIY’ retreats, in the contributions for inclusion in future sense that participants are invited to contribute to readings at prayer times, on editions are welcome and will be considered by the editorial team. a particular theme which is chosen nearer the time; and to help with whatever To receive a printed copy of the simple vegetarian catering and housekeeping activities that are needed. Newsletter, please send your details to May 4th – 7th September 27th – 30th Martin Neilan, 5 Flemish Close, Tymawr Convent, The Stanton Guildhouse, St Florence, Pembrokeshire SA70 8LT 01834 871433 Monmouth Stanton, Worcs [email protected] Tymawr Convent is a small, The Guildhouse is a beautiful centre for inclusion on our data base. The Cistercian in spirit, contemplative near Broadway. Set on a hillside, it Newsletter is free but an annual community living in the peaceful has stunning views towards the Welsh donation towards costs is invited with the edition. Copies, for friends Welsh countryside. We stay at mountains. More about the centre can or interested organisations, can Michaelgarth, the guest house, lying be found at www.stantonguildhouse. be provided. within the extensive and beautiful org.uk. We can accommodate 13 Current and back numbers of convent grounds. More details of the people in simple shared rooms. the Newsletter are available on community can be found at: www.bedegriffi thssangha.org.uk www.churchinwales.org.uk/tymawr The cost will be £115* In the immediate future there will be a rota of newsletter editors so We can accommodate 14 people (9 If you would like more information or to please send all correspondence sleeping in Michaelgarth & 5 in the request a booking form please contact regarding the newsletter to the Convent) in 8 single rooms and 3 assistant editor double rooms. Jane Lichnowski, 82 Gloucester Road, John Careswell Cirencester. Glos. GL7 2LJ The Coach House. Cork Street Frome, Somerset. BA11 1BL The cost will be £95* Tel - 01285 651381 tel: 01373 454491 email - [email protected] [email protected] SANGHA CONTACTS Sangha Contact and Editor Joan Walters, Church House, Steynton, Milford Haven, Pembs SA73 1AW - 01646 692496 contact@bedegriffi thssangha.org.uk Sangha Working Group Jane Lichnowski, 82 Gloucester Road, Cirencester, GL7 2LJ 01285 651381 [email protected] UK Contact with Shantivanam Michael Giddings - 07810 366860 *Please note that a deposit of £25 is required when booking. [email protected] Bede Griffi ths Charitable Trust Recently, I found a diary entry from the early 1990’s. Following a silent retreat Adrian Rance, 46, Park Road, Abingdon I had written how much I was beginning to value ‘being in silence with others’. Oxford. OX14 1DG Since then I have grown to value this more and more, and also to realise that 07775 600 385 I am not the only one who feels this way! The ‘Hermits in Company’ retreat, [email protected] which grew out of the Sangha’s Spring Silent Retreat held at the Screen in Wales, Newsletter Designer offers just such an opportunity. Ricardo Insua-Cao www.rdo.org.uk - [email protected] bgs_newsletter_spring2012.indd 2 18/02/2012 11:10:04 SPRING 2012 3 From Father Bede to a Friend edited by Hazel Eyles August 1936 - I have taken the Vasquez – at the Renaissance carried it suffering, kindness and charity which trouble to read up the catholic theory still further, and maintained that where can be conceived, and I doubt whether of war in the last few weeks, as it there is a possibility of international anything but an unconquerable faith has been conveniently set out by arbitration, a state has no right to go to in the power and goodness of God, John Eppstein in a masterly work war, and also that if the damage done and an unalterable hope in eternal life called The Catholic Tradition of to society in general is calculated to which will crown our suffering on this the Law of Nations. He sets out the be greater than the good attained by earth, can really sustain it. It means thinking of the church on the subject war, it is not permissible to fi ght. Thus that one must be prepared to suffer at length from the New Testament many modern theologians, following anything, in fact to be crucifi ed, if to the latest papal encyclicals. The their teaching, seem disposed to doubt necessary, for Christ’s sake – and how idea that it is unlawful for a Christian whether the conditions of a just war many of us are prepared for that? under any circumstances to bear can exist in the modern world. arms has never been approached by I hope there isn’t too much ‘shop’ in the church. The words of St John the However this may be, I agree with this letter, but at least it may be said Baptist to the soldiers who came to Huxley that passive resistance is the that you provoked it. We have been be baptised, Christ’s treatment of the greatest power for peace, and the only enjoying ourselves hay making this centurion whose son was dying, and thing that can ultimately triumph. It year. We have just begun to cut a the reception of Cornelius and his seems to me in fact that we may have second crop. friends by St Peter in the Acts, are during the coming years a repetition suffi cient evidence that the profession of the history of the persecutions in October 1937 - I am due for my of a soldier is not inconsistent with the early church. The whole world is solemn profession in December, and Christianity. rapidly becoming pagan, and turning shall be voted for by the community against the church. Persecution has in a few weeks time. If I get turned The Christian tradition on the matter already begun in Russia, Germany, out, I hope you will offer me a place was in fact laid down by St Augustine Spain and Mexico. Austria and France of refuge. The thought of it, I confess, by his declaring that it is permissible may well fall into the hands of Nazis appals me. I love this place so much, to fi ght in a just war, and if there is no and Communists before long, and that I simply do not know how I could other means of obtaining justice. War one never knows what will happen to live outside. I love every moment of between nations, in fact, ultimately Italy with Mussolini in power. Thus the day, every stick and stone here, rests on the same basis as the use of the Church will be left to fi ght for and every soul in the community more force for the administration of law herself –and the only weapons she than words can tell. And yet I fi nd the within a nation. The Middle Ages can employ will be those of passive life very hard in many ways, and I elaborated in theory of what precisely resistance. I think, however, that have a sense of the awful tragedy of constitutes a just war, and St Thomas Huxley ludicrously underestimates life which almost overwhelms me. with his usual accuracy lays down the degree of heroism required to But that is the mystery of the Cross, fi ve conditions.
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